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by HewerVane
Release Schedule: 2 days Ryan spent centuries making death obsolete. By the end of his first life, he had risen from an ordinary man to the ruler of a civilization spread across the stars, armed with technology capable of rebuilding bodies and bending space itself. Then something finally killed him. He opens his eyes again as Russell: an infant in a medieval world where magic is real, ancient institutions control its use, and the mark on his hand is enough to earn him a death sentence. Everything that once made him powerful is gone. His empire. His machines. His body. His mind isn't. To everyone else, magic is inheritance, ritual, and tradition. To Russell, it is a system. And systems can be measured. Understood. Improved. Broken. But Russell's second life was not an accident. Something arranged his reincarnation, the Church has spent six thousand years hunting what he carries, and whatever brought him here expects something in return. Ryan conquered death once with science. Russell will have to do it again with magic.
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 17:18 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 17:18 UTC
Ranking model: rs-public-oracle-state-v1
Forecast model: rs-model-entry-v1
Chart history contains only this ranking model's runs; legacy points are not spliced in.
Coupled 14-day outlook
rs-joint-entry-copula-v1
Any eligible RS entry
4%
Two or more lists
3%
Likely threshold order: Sci-fi → Mystery → Adventure → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Sci-fi + Mystery (1%).
Estimated from one fitted shared story path; category probabilities are not multiplied as if lists were independent.
Separate entry forecast; this probability does not enter the ranking score.
Overall Rising Stars Shadow RS rank
#8396 of 12,366 · 8346 below RS #50
By genre
beats 90% of similar stories
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beats 76% of similar stories
Firing on all cylinders
Traffic and conversion are both strong for a story this size. Readers are finding it and sticking — if Rising Stars is the goal, this is the moment to push.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 10–19 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.